Cancer Diagnosis

Since this type of cancer and its treatment varies, the diagnosis of cancer and determine its type is very important. This almost always requires a sampling of cancer tissue for examination under a microscope. A number of special test on sample of cancer tissue may be necessary to describe more about the cancer was found.

Where this type of cancer is know, will help doctors in determining the examination will be done, because every cancer tends to follow a certain pattern of growth and spread.

In 7% of patient , examinations carried out to find the matastasis (spread) before  the origin of cancer were observed. Sometime the original cancer could not be found.

Doctors can be usually determine the type of primary tumor by performing of a metastatic  cancer and examined under a microscope. But the identification of cancer is not always easy and certain.

Posted in: cancer